Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862.

Alexander Gardner, 1821-1882, photographer.

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CREATED/PUBLISHED 1862 October 3.

Reference: Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0145

Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.

Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress).

Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.